The ladies’ Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race will join the biking world substantially for the occasion. The Geelong occasion will be the first time Australia has held a pinnacle-level ladies’ avenue race because the town also hosted the 2010 World Championships.
Previously, Geelong hosted a spherical of the vintage women’s World Cup series from 2003 to 2008.
Organizers also announced on Thursday that the sixth version of the Cadel Evans race will feature the same prize money for males and females.
The occasion had previously announced that the circuit race would be held some days before the two major races moved from Albert Park to Torquay.
The women’s road race will start and end in Geelong on February 1, and the men’s race might be held the following day.
The guys’ avenue race is already on the World Tour, although it isn’t pretty at the same level as Adelaide’s Tour Down Under in January.
The Santos Women’s Tour in Adelaide additionally had identical prize money as the Tour Down Under this 12 months for the primary time.
No, you can still or must take away the benefit the ATP World Tour No. 7 Nikolay Davydenko had in taking pictures of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals trophy at The O2 south-east London.
Davydenko defeated no much less than Juan Martin del Potro 6-three, 6-four, the slayer of Roger Federer and Robin Soderling.
“I changed into [looking at the trophy], until 2008, [there are] such a lot of names there, like Djokovic, Federer, all people, [Pete] Sampras,” said Davydenko, who turned into contesting his fifth directly yr-stop championship. “In 2009, [it says] Davydenko for all time on this trophy. I think it’s amazing. [In the] records of the [Finals], for my call to be there may be something exceptional for me.”
Davidenko had a notable run and deserved to win, but del Potro changed into going for walks on empty, and the kick from the younger horse from the pampas turned into not there. Therefore, the saying applies; ‘Easy to Beat a Dead Horse!’
Nevertheless, del Potro, unlike Roger Federer ( Tennis—The Dark Side of Federer? ), demonstrated terrific sportsmanship right at the end of the suit by congratulating his opponent on the internet and speaking to Davidenko in front of the group.
“This tournament has a super champion, like Nikolay,” stated del Potro, a winner of three excursion-stage titles this season. “He labored hard to beat each participant right here this week. So maybe I must improve a little bit on the little things. But he performed much better than me, and that is it. He performed fantastic tennis. He awesomely beat me.”
These gestures are those of a true champion and display that del Potro is a young man about substance, not simply a photograph others created. I hope del Potro will stay like this throughout his tennis career.
As for Davidenko, he has had the possibility to conquer Federer on at least four occasions, all of them in Grand Slams, but incompetent coaching has valued him those ignored possibilities and probable four Grand Slam titles.
On this occasion, the problems with double faults, susceptible second serves, and intellectual soften downs in essential factors were solved (?), and he won. Despite the click-derogatory attitude toward Davidenko, I suppose he is a terrific participant and a champion.
